best way to externalize HTML in GWT apps?

Question

What\'s the best way to externalize large quantities of HTML in a GWT app? We have a rather complicated GWT app of about 30 \"pages\"; each page has a sort

Answer 1

I've used ClientBundle in a similar setting. I've created a package my.resources and put my HTML document and the following class there:

package my.resources;

import com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT;
import com.google.gwt.resources.client.ClientBundle;
import com.google.gwt.resources.client.TextResource;

public interface MyHtmlResources extends ClientBundle {
 public static final MyHtmlResources INSTANCE = GWT.create(MyHtmlResources.class);

 @Source("intro.html")
 public TextResource getIntroHtml();

}

Then I get the content of that file by calling the following from my GWT client code:

HTML htmlPanel = new HTML();
String html = MyHtmlResources.INSTANCE.getIntroHtml().getText();
htmlPanel.setHTML(html);

See http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideClientBundle.html for further information.